I laid me down upon a bank

1st reading:
(Edited text)

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I laid me down upon a bank Where love lay sleeping. I heard among the rushes dank Weeping, Weeping.

Then I went to the heath & the wild To the thistles & thorns of the waste And they told me how they were beguil'd	Driven out, & compeld to be chaste. ________________________________________

2nd reading:
(The original text)

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I laid me down upon a bank Where love lay sleeping I heard among the rushes dank Weeping Weeping

Then I went to the heath & the wild To the thistles & thorns of the waste And they told me how they were beguild Driven out & compeld to be chaste ________________________________________